Senior Engineer

Job Description

Location We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester or London office once or twice a week.

We offer

• Up to £59K base salary
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
  
  

The role

Leads by example in crafting high-quality software solutions and acts as a technical mentor within the team, driving innovation and efficiency in development practices. This is an advanced role for seasoned professionals with extensive software engineering experience

• Leads the development work within a project or cross functional product team or across several smaller ones
• Leads complex development tasks and initiatives, ensuring best practices are adhered to
• Develops robust solutions and provides oversight during the implementation phase
• Serves as a technical mentor, supporting and upskilling other engineers
• Contributes actively to the development and delivery of software features and bug fixes
• Provides expert input to product lifecycle decisions such as moves to service transition, roles and expertise required and appropriate technical solutions.
• Writes clean, scalable, and testable code
• Participates in code reviews to learn best practices and coding standards
• Participates in the technical testing of code
• Contributes to the development of features or bug fixes
• Stays up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in software engineering to continuously improve personal skills and the quality of products.
• Mentors more junior members of the team
  
  

The person

• Excellent software development expertise, with a focus on writing high performance, scalable, and secure code
• Strong mentorship skills, guiding less experienced team members towards excellence
• Advanced problem-solving and decision-making abilities in complex environments
• Comprehensive knowledge of modern software architectures, design patterns, and best practices
• Deep understanding of the full software development and deployment lifecycle, including CI / CD practices
• Familiarity with programming languages commonly used in the industry (JavaScript & Python)
• Good problem solving, analytical and logical skills to troubleshoot and solve complex software problems
• Good written and verbal communication skills, necessary for effective teamwork, documentation, and stakeholder engagement
• Substantial software development experience, preferably with a history of progressing through various levels of engineering roles
• Track record of successful project and product delivery and a significant contribution to the technical community
• Science/Computer Science degree or relevant industry experience
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!

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